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Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country...
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"Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher rin suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies-until the sudden arrest and subsequent 'suicide' of a black janitor form Du Toit's school. Haunted by the new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation...
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